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Just got interviewed by Farhad Manjoo at Salon.com, who I’ve spoken with in the past and who wanted to know whether I felt that Dean’s defeat in Iowa meant that the Internet “lost” Iowa, or whether the Internet’s ability to make a difference was overblown. No on both counts. The Internet proved you could mobilize…

If I were Joe Trippi, I would have spent last night on the flight back to NH forcing Howard Dean to watch Dean’s “concession” speech in Iowa. Again. And again. And again. Try listening to this audio clip more than once. Go ahead, I dare you.

Well, to paraphrase Josh Marshall from another election, that really could have gone better. It seems to me that the big stories to come out of this caucus are: Gephardt and Dean slaughtering each other in the week leading up to the caucus. Dean, as frontrunner, absorbing the majority of the attacks from the press…

You can also watch one of the caucuses live on C-Span right now.

To track results in real-time, be sure to go to the Iowa party’s candidate leaderboard.

I’m laying in bed, recovering from a terrible bout of stomach flu. My son got the flu at the same time, so we’ve made a great two-some. We don’t have a TV in the bedroom, so I’ve been mostly sleeping the flu off while also trying to keep my son entertained. (Right now, he’s watching…

Organization Man – Why the Dean campaign isn’t worried about Zogby. By Chris Suellentrop If Dean wins Monday, Connolly and the campaign will have proved that the Internet’s effect on politics isn’t just about fund-raising or Meetup or blogging. The Internet can win the ground war. This is a great piece by Chris Suellentrop at…

(Warning: if you don’t know what RSS is or you read this site in a browser as opposed to something like a newsreader, ignore this post. Go away. None of this will make any sense. Nothing to see here, please move along.) This is mostly for those of you who may be reading this in…

Congratulations are in order for Josh Marshall. I’ve known Josh for something like seven years, and his success is entirely deserved. If you’re interested in politics and you’re not reading Josh’s weblog Talking Points Memo, you’re missing out. Editor and Publisher, an old-school journal covering the newspaper industry, added an award category for bloggers this…

This is ludicrous. Peggy Noonan in today’s WSJ claims that the press (who, she admits, have become “an anti-Dean mover”) is saving us from ourselves out of a sense of duty to the Democratic Party: [Dean] seems as unlovable (unless you’re a Deaniac) as he is improbable. But I suspect there’s something else at work.…